Survival of the Smartest
Subtitle: Managing Information for Rapid Action and World-Class Performance
By: Haim Mendelson, Johannes Ziegler
Contributors: Ziegler, Johannes, 1965-
Publisher: J. Wiley
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780471295600
Subjects: Efficacité organisationnelle; Management; Management information systems; Corporate culture; Gestion de l'information; Spitzentechnologie; Industries de pointe; Gestion; Informatiemanagement; High technology industries; Organizational effectiveness; Culture d'entreprise; Betriebliches Informationssystem
Description: Drawing on the innovative concept of Organizational IQ and a study of companies in seventeen countries, Survival of the Smartest charts a course for managers to follow into the twenty-first century. At the heart of the book is the authors' tool for assessing an organization's future health, which they call Organizational IQ. It measures a company's ability to quickly process information and make effective decisions.

Case studies from Hewlett-Packard, British Petroleum, Sun Microsystems, and Chrysler, among others, illustrate how companies can improve their Organizational IQs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: What This Book Is About --; title: The Quick and the Dead --; title: Information Age Principles --; title: Information Awareness --; title: Decision Architecture --; title: Internal Knowledge Dissemination --; title: Organizational Focus --; title: Information Age Business Networks --; title: Company Case Studies: Getting Smarter --; title: Turbo-Charging The HP Way --; title: Acer's Roller Coaster into the Information Age --; title: British Petroleum: From Tanker to Speedboat --; title: Your Turn --; title: Modex--An IQ Turnaround --; title: Next Steps.